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Newsletter Dummy.Qxd 27/11/2018 16:44 Page 1 NL 2018 NEWSLETTER DEC.2018-JAN. 2019_Newsletter Dummy.qxd 27/11/2018 16:44 Page 1 Volume 42 No. 6 DECEMBER 2018 / JANUARY 2019 D50 The Diocese of Banjul NEWSLETTER Incorporating The Catholic Newsletter Let’s make Christmas a true celebration of the world’s redemption Thoughts, prayers and readings for Mass on Sundays and for Christmas and New Year NL 2018 NEWSLETTER DEC.2018-JAN. 2019_Newsletter Dummy.qxd 27/11/2018 16:44 Page 2 NL 2018 NEWSLETTER AUG - SEPT 2018_Newsletter Dummy.qxd 7/26/2018 11:28 AM Page 2 2 DioCEsE of BANJUl NEwslEttER DECEMBER 2018 / JANUARY 2019 2 DIOCESE OF BANJUL NEWSLETTER AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2018 Contact us at GAMBIA PASTORAL INSTITUTE 33 Kairaba Avenue, PMB 296 Serrekunda, The Gambia, West Africa Telephone +220 4394847 / 9957143 / 7773494, Email [email protected] FACILITIES & SERVICES Conference & Dining hall available for your events. Room Accommodation available Television and Radio Programmes produced in our studio; video and audio for weddings, funerals & all Church programmes. Communications Unit: Basic Rooms, Rooms with A/C & TV, Rooms with TV, Room en suite & Rooms with Fan & Bathroom all available depending on your choice Free wifi available in all rooms something PRECIOUS: Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady of Peace Hostel & Cafeteria @ Kunkujang Mariama •A quiet, contemplative haven •New pilgrim accommodation with facilities for the disabled For more information, •Youth dormitory accommodation telephone 714 4981 / 439 0767 •Pilgrim refectory and hall •Self-catering centre •A lovely, peaceful, spiritual place, where you can go at your own pace, with your own thoughts •A place of prayer providing a refreshing break from a hectic and commercialised life •A warm welcome at the Parish Church NL 2018 NEWSLETTER DEC.2018-JAN. 2019_Newsletter Dummy.qxd 27/11/2018 16:44 Page 3 DioCEsE of BANJUl NEwslEttER DECEMBER 2018 / JANUARY 2019 3 By way of introduction God so loved the world… THE CHURCH’S first season of the year, Advent, begins After St John, on Friday 28th December, on 2nd December, four Sundays before Christmas. comes Holy Innocents Day, when we think Advent is the season of preparation for Christmas, just as Lent of the infants slaughtered by King Herod, prepares us for Easter. and of the flight of Mary and Joseph with In Advent we get ready to celebrate the coming of Christ, their Child, as refugees, to Egypt. Mary would surely have Son of God and Child of Bethlehem. But Advent also bids us preferred somewhere more comfortable than a stable in which to look towards the end of time, to Christ’s Second Coming, give birth to her Child, and she must have found the long, hard when the kingdom of God will be fulfilled. journey to Egypt fraught with anxiety. And Advent points to the 'Four Last Things': death, judgment, Christmas, for many millions across the world, is party-time. hell and heaven: concepts that many of us would rather not think There is much that is good in such a celebration. But Christmas about. in the Church means so much more. Our faith does indeed call Before Christmas we should ponder on what Christ’s coming for celebration, but we need to bear in mind that Christ came means for us. If our Christmas just means good company, good into the world to redeem mankind from sin and suffering. food and drink, and music, with maybe an outing to Midnight The true celebration of Christmas brings hope and rejoicing, Mass, we trivialise or miss the point of the great feast. but faces up to life’s realities, including pain and sorrow. We are not angels, singing in the heavens. We’re not Christmas means nothing less than the redemption of the whole shepherds, hurrying to the manger. We’re not wise men, offering world. ‘God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.’ exotic gifts. No, we are simply our ordinary selves, in our (John 3:16). So we should remember the poor, the dispossessed, everyday Gambia. But to Christ no-one is ‘ordinary’. the lonely, and those who live without freedom or hope. He ‘emptied himself’, sharing our humanity so as to offer each Christ tells his followers that the kingdom of God is here, and every one of us, through his birth, teaching, death among us. His name, ‘Emmanuel’, means ‘God with us’. Let us and resurrection, a place in heaven. ask him to inspire in us the full significance of his birth. Then our Two of the three feasts which immediately follow Christmas ‘Happy Christmas’ will express true joy in salvation through Day may point us to the deeper meaning of Christmas. Jesus Christ, Babe of Bethlehem and the world’s Redeemer. Strangely, you may think, they centre not on birth, but on injustice and death. O Holy Child of Bethlehem, St Stephen, whose martyrdom we commemorate immediately Descend to us, we pray. after Christmas Day, was so sure of salvation through Christ that Cast out our sin and enter in, he offered his very life to the Saviour. Be born in us today. St John, whose feast follows Stephen’s, wrote of Jesus, the ‘Word made flesh’, that ‘we beheld his glory’ - though many We hear the Christmas angels did not recognise him, just as today many do not recognise The great glad tidings tell, ‘Christ’ at Christmas. O come to us, abide with us, Our Lord Emmanuel. The Pope who liked iN tHis issUE ‘Satan’s brew’ 4 Here & there: Big day for St Therese’s School 6 Wonderful Journey: the Church Calendar 2018-19 page 11 Lamin Sanneh: internationally-acclaimed scholar 7 The Advent Wreath: how to make it, and use it 9 Fee moi Gambia New chapter at 10 Family circle: painting your house Kunkujang Mariarma 12 Sunday and Christmas reflections page 5 20 Three intrepid women missionaries 22 From beyond the Diocese: Francis condemns abortion First published Palm Sunday 1976 24 O come, O come! T he Great Advent Antiphons The Diocese of Banjul Newsletter 25 Question Box: agnoticism & atheism Incorporating The Catholic Newsletter Difficult but vital doctrine: the Incarnation DECEMBER 2018 - JANUARY 2019 V olume 42 N o. 6 Justice and only justice: Week of Prayer for Unity Published by The Gambia Pastoral Institute 33 Kairaba Avenue 26 Anniversaries: The first 19th-century missionary PMB 296 Serrekunda, The Gambia, West Africa 27 Weekdays: from St Francis Xavier to St John Bosco Telephone 4394847 Email [email protected] 29 Weekday Mass readings, December & January Editor Fr Peter S. Lopez Editorial Consultant David Somers Layout Betty Quacoo 30 End piece: Beware the ‘Prosperity Gospel’. Production Henry Gomez, Frédéric Diatta 32 Gospel & illustration: the Baptism of the Lord NL 2018 NEWSLETTER DEC.2018-JAN. 2019_Newsletter Dummy.qxd 27/11/2018 16:44 Page 4 4 DioCEsE of BANJUl NEwslEttER DECEMBER 2018 / JANUARY 2019 Bishop Mendy’s warm welcome in Basse Here there NEws fRoM ARoUND tHE DioCEsE Royal visit at st therese’s school DURING the visit of the Prince of Wales to The Gambia, his wife, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall, accompanied by the First Lady of The Gambia, visited St Therese's Upper Basic School. The two ladies cut a ribbon, planted a commemorative tree and visited the school library. Pupils presented plays, songs and poems. The visitors spoke to children taking part in the Commonwealth Essay BISHOP Gabriel Mendy was warmly received by elated Competition, and donated books, school bags and other crowds of Christians and Muslims on Friday 9th November materials. when he arrived to pay his first visit as Bishop to Basse. St Therese’s Upper Basic School, at first known as That evening he attended a fund-raising concert in the St Therese’s Elementary School, was opened 70 years ago, Parish Hall, presented by the choir of St Joseph’s Church. on 1st December 1948, with 114 pupils. The following morning Bishop Mendy met St Joseph’s The Prince of Wales’ programme included a visit to the Parish Council, and called at the Office of the Governor Gambia Armed Forces Training School in Fajara, and the of the Upper River Region, Fatou Jammeh Touray. nearby Medical Research Council (MRC). He laid a wreath at He also called on the Imam. the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery. On Sunday 11th November the Bishop presided at morning Mass and confirmed 17 young people. Essay Competition Outside the church, Bishop Mendy blessed a statue of The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition has been St Joseph with the Child Jesus. He met many people, run by the Royal Commonwealth Society since 1883. including those just confirmed. The competition is open to all citizens and residents of On Monday, the final day of his visit, Bishop Mendy the Commonwealth aged 18 and under, and runs until 1st June visited St Joseph’s and St George’s schools. 2019. All entrants receive a Certificate of Participation, and the New Nuncio visits the Gambia winners and runners-up from the senior category (14-18 A DINNER in honour of years) and the junior category (under 14) will win a trip Archbishop Dagoberto Campos- to London for a week of educational and cultural events. Salas, Papal Nuncio to The Gambia, was hosted by Bishop Gabriel Mendy at GPI on Monday 19th November. The Nuncio comes from Costa Rica, and has served in Sudan, Chile, Sweden, Turkey and Mexico. He is also Nuncio to Liberia, to which he was assigned in July. Since 1537 Popes have sent nuncios to reside in the countries to which they are accredited. A nuncio represents the Catholic Church in the country or countries to which he is assigned, and serves as a mediator between the local Catholic Church and the Vatican.
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